Re: Automatic placement of objects in Dia

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 14:22, Anthony Reina wrote:
> I've been using a program called postgresql_autodoc 
> (http://www.rbt.ca/autodoc/index.html) which creates database diagrams 
> that are outputted to Dia format. Unfortunately, all of the boxes for 
> the different database tables appear overtop of one another in Dia. Is 
> there a command in Dia that I could add to automatically place the boxes 
> so that they don't overlap?

Dia does not have such a function itself at the moment.  It's not a
simple thing to do, but if somebody actually implemented it, I'd be
happy to use it.

If you try the AutoDIA program (http://droogs.org/autodia/), I believe
it has some automatic placement.

-Lars